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I mentioned earlier the principle reason behind the name, and thus the ostensible theme, of my livejournal. The time of my life in which I posted to this journal was a period where I struggled most of all with the basic question of whether there was anything I found worth doing at all. [Editor's note: Yeah, I know, most of my posts really had very ( Read more... ) -
An Expected Parting
Alas, five years (or four, or three, or two, or one) is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable persons ( Read more... ) -
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"if you're not willing to do what it takes to change something, then you're not justified to complain about it." -
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I named this livejournal as I did to make one central thing... central, I guess. I hold it to be a necessary fact that life is worth living. I try to avoid having conceits based on my preferences as a matter of course, but in the case of this one, I make an exception. The explanation, I'd like to think, is fairly simple. Life simply must be worth ( Read more... ) -
On Listening - A Minor Treatise
Person 1: "I really like talking to [X]. It feels as though he is really listening to what I say instead of..."
Person 2: "... instead of waiting for his turn to speak."
(I forget the source for this, but I think I remember hearing some approximation of it once in a movie)
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Walden, Henry David ( Read more... ) -
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Old habits come back easily. It's like riding a bike; you never really forget how ( Read more... ) -
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I have this strange feeling ( Read more... ) -
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Realized I haven't been posting much of late. Mostly I just haven't had much to say about anything, or perhaps more accurately, I haven't had much to say about anything that I want other people to be reading. It's likely that I don't need to point this out, but I remind you, readers, that I am aware of what I write as a thing read by other people ( Read more... ) -
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It has come to my attention that perhaps not everyone who reads this is in on the latest news ( Read more... )